Author Biography
Pedro Furtado is Professor at University of Coimbra UC, Portugal, where he teaches courses in both Computer and Biomedical Engineering. He has more than 25 years experience in both teaching, doing research and supervising industry projects. He has a broad interest in computer science subjects, with the main focus being on performance and scalability qualities of systems. Pedro applied these qualities in databases, data warehousing and analytics, bigdata, data mining, cloud, IoT and realtime systems. Pedro has more than 150 papers published in international conferences and journals, books published and several research collaborations with both industry and academia. In the last years, he has spent time as visiting scholar in some prestigious universities in the world, and collaborating with non-profit institutions.
